Deanna Reder

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition (eBook, ePUB)

Cree and Métis âcimisowina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing. Since the 1970s non-Indigenous scholars have perpetrated the notion that Indigenous people were disinclined to talk about their lives and underscored the assumption that autobiography is a European invention. Deanna Reder challenges such long held assumptions by calling attention to longstanding autobiographical practices that are engrained in Cree and M tis, or n hiyawak, culture and examining a series of examples of Indigenous life writing. Blended with family stories and drawing on original historical research, Reder examines censored and suppressed writing by n hiyawak intellectuals such as Maria Campbell, Edward Ahenakew, and James Brady. Grounded in n hiyawak ontologies and epistemologies that consider life stories to be an intergenerational conduit to pass on knowledge about a shared world, this study encourages a widespread re-evaluation of past and present engagement with Indigenous storytelling forms across scholarly disciplines

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771125550
• Artikelnr.: 72306137

Autorenporträt

Deanna Reder(Cree-Métis) ) is Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and English at Simon Fraser University. Her research project, The People and the Text, focuses on the understudied archive of Indigenous literary work in Canada, and she has co-edited several anthologies in Indigenous literary studies.